Re: Re: Re: [HolyGeek] It's that time again folks...

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Ed Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




Dear Lobster -
:)
 
It is sometimes painful to watch people learn things, isn't it? 
 
She has realized that it is faster for her to simply reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS and then port her files from the other computer THAN it is to properly diagnose and repair. 
 
 
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Many IT departments work on the same premise
They do not have the skills, time or womanpower
 
 
:)
 
Yes.
 
Well, now, thanks to installing a firewall and new antivirus software and many hours scrubbing AND introducing FireFox, Lizzie's laptop has worked error free for 18 hours.
 
So we have another convert to FireFox. :)
 
Thanks for all your help, much appreciated.
 
The main computer - another story, but i tested the antivirus software from the Bart site - very fast and easy, thanks.

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am concerned about the possibility of the keydrive picking up an infection in the process. Is that possible?
 
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Of course it is possible - if the file is infected
it is infected
 
 
Thought so. Thanks for the confirmation.
 
I had two antivirus programs on a diskette (remember those?) and once inserted into the drive, i could hear the computer thrashing about on the floppy drive, this was after it had opened the two antivir files on the diskette. Whatever malware is on that computer is seeking out any live drives and trying to do mal things.
 
I cannot get the box on the internet still - packet flooding continues from something installed on it as well as externally. Last night i uninstalled McAffee firewall and installed Norton Intenet Security with all the bells and whistles, to no avail.
 
Anyone know of any small-sized anti-spyware programs that would fit on a diskette? (Getting impatient waiting for things to be burned to CD and don't want the usb keydrive to get infected.)

 
IBM have been putting a TSM (I think it is called)
security chip into their machine for 5 years - about time it was on all motherboards
but people do not like the unique identifying (which already exists - every computer has a bios number and other unique addressing)
 
You're correct... Things like the MAC address on NIC cards are unique indentifiers... and who goes to the trouble of swapping out NICs to maintain anonymity?

A nice time to be still and quiet.
 
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Puppy is the most fun (a new version soon will have Opera Browser - it is still smaller than Firefox - so good for small distros
- it also has an install to USB keydrive - keydrive seems the adopted term incidentally - when you boot from CD)
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Got the Puppy working from USB keydrive (but this is slower than booting from CD)
Maybe can be improved - dunno 
Also managed to speed up the slow refresh by changing the resolution (from 24 million colours to 16 million)
 
I always thought the human eye could only see 16 million shades - so what is 24 million for and 32 million?
 
Exactly. An artist rejected printed proof copies of his Christmas cards last week because, as he put it, "the snow looks too cold."
 
To his trained eye, the blue tint was off... No one else could tell the difference.

 
 
The Puppy gets my vote
 
- do you like the graphic I did?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Linux
 
It's great!
 
Although the banner blocks you from seeing me. I'm just about a yard to the left of the right margin, hidden behind.

 
Maybe i can get around to adding RAM to that Fedora server in the not too distant... and then there could be a mirror for CurlChat as promised.
 
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That would be good
 
Incidentally tried the 
clamshell open source anti virus
slow and crashed
 
BUT in a few months this will be the best
- no doubt there - excellent potential
 
Have had to reboot the server several times here
(I think an infected machine - probably a laptop - on the network)
 
Am considering putting all groups on no attachments allowed... This latest batch of infections has been the most troublesome.

 
Maybe we need to be using Amida Simputers?
http://www.amidasimputer.com/
 
These look cool!

 
You can use it as a book - know how you turn the page?
Wrist flick .. . .
 
 
:)
 
Do you have any experience with Fireworks? Came with a computer here and wondering if it's worth the time investment to learn.
 
love and peace,
joyce

 
 
 
Lob
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